Thanks to technology we are living in a fool’s paradise where everything up is now down. The difference between imaginary and reality has become so convoluted it’s come down to our best guess. Because we are always connected we no longer feel alone, yet psychiatrists will tell us we’re more disconnected than ever [...]

“While PageRank is one of the more important signals in ranking, it is still only one of 200 signals that Google uses for ranking”. These are the words of Matt Cutts from Google as he goes on to explain what some of those other signals are. According to Matt too many bloggers are obsessed with [...]

Matt Cutts gives us an update about the permanent algorithm changes Google has recently implemented. It could also explain why I’ve noticed a dramatic improvement for BLOGBloke in the SERPS (search engine results pages). WooHoo!

I was reading a tweet today linking to a post titled “Secrets to Running a Wildly Popular Blog”. It was full of the usual stuff that we’ve all heard before so I thought it was about time somebody told the real truth how the popular blogs got where they are today. Since nobody else has stood up [...]

RSS means "Really Simple Syndication". If you read my Welcome Page you might recall I mentioned that I once coded my own RSS newsfeed (XML Extensible Markup Language) from scratch and gave away a free ebook teaching bloggers how to make their own feed long before RSS came built-in to blogs and there was such a thing as Wordpress. You might be wondering [...]